Jean-Léon Gérôme’s paintingPhryne Revealed Before the Areopagusdepicts the hetaira Phryne on trial. The sight of her nude body, according to legend, persuaded the jurors to acquit her. /Photocourtesy Hamburger Kunsthalle, Wikimedia Commons This visualisation of the distinct group in the Assemb...
Noted by Tanner, Jeremy, ‘Sight and painting: optical theory and pictorial poetics in Classical Greek art’, in Squire, Michael, ed.,Sight and the Ancient Senses(London: Routledge, 2016), 110,https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315719238. Tanner also refers to a fragment of a work by Geminus...
Sala della Segnatura. (Photo: 0ro1 viaWikimedia Commons,CC BY-SA 3.0orGFDL) The School of Athensis one of four wall frescoes in the Stanza della Segnatura. Each wall represents one of the four branches of knowledge during the Renaissance—theology, literature, justice, and philosophy. The r...
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Volume 2 | Issue 2 July 2012 Raphael's School of Athens: A Teorem in a Painting? Robert Haas rhaas3141@yahoo Follow this and additional works at: h p://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm Part of the Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture...